They kept practicing from morning until night, trying to master the basic skills of lion dance, routines and instrumental music within a short periodThe training course on the Chinese lion dance is part of the 2017 C万象城娱乐awchina Africa Cultures in Focus, an activity held by the Bureau for External Cultural Relations of Chinese Ministry of Culture to strengthen the cultural communication between China and African countriesThe cultural center of the Jinpu New Area has undertaken the course for three consecutive years since 2015Only a short walk from the National Mall, it looks like a good place to live, work and hang outHyra described the massive transformation i万象城娱乐awcn the U Street/Shaw area, where the city's once most infamous open-air drug market has become a farmers' market now selling grass-fed beef and homemade duck egg ravioliThe area has seen a sharp increase in the white population and skyrocketing property prices, a sign of gentrification in the Washington DC